A new Cooperation Circle from rural Western Kenya was welcomed into the URI community in February 2011. Indigenous, Seventh Day Adventists, Catholics, Muslims and Protestants, the members of Prolife Interfaith Kenya CC are working together “to socially and economically empower the youth and the whole of society” regardless of religion, race or creed. They came together in 2008 as a youth self-help group following the post-election violence in 2007.
“We wanted to help ourselves as youth, and envisioned helping other less fortunate people of the community like the poor, orphans and families who were affected by the violence too,” said Director Evans Ishuga Kinavuli. “We did so by uniting ourselves notwithstanding our faiths which initially were dividing us.”
Today the group numbers fifty people from three communities, and is registered in its district. Members help support one another and their communities by pooling money to buy livestock and seeds and then returning a portion of offspring and crop proceeds back to the group for reinvestment.
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